STEVE KESTELL
Chairperson
Committee on Education
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The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 407
Relating to: snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, and funding for supplemental snowmobile trail aids.
hist22413Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption: Ayes: 15 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Shilling, Wirch, Nygren, Strachota, Kooyenga, LeMahieu, Klenke, Mason and Richards.
Noes: 0.
Ayes: 14 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Grothman, Shilling, Wirch, Nygren, Strachota, Kooyenga, LeMahieu, Klenke, Mason and Richards.
Noes: 1 - Senator Lazich.
Assembly Bill 541
Relating to: the sales and use tax exemption for equipment used in a fertilizer blending, feed milling, or grain drying operation.
Ayes: 11 - Senators Darling, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Shilling, Nygren, Strachota, Kooyenga, LeMahieu and Klenke.
Noes: 3 - Senators Wirch, Mason and Richards.
Assembly Bill 574
Relating to: designation of agricultural enterprise areas.
Ayes: 16 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Shilling, Wirch, Nygren, Strachota, Kooyenga, Knudson, LeMahieu, Klenke, Mason and Richards.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Bill 644
Relating to: sales tax bad debt return adjustments for private label credit card bad debt.
Ayes: 12 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Nygren, Strachota, Kooyenga, Knudson, LeMahieu and Klenke.
Noes: 4 - Senators Shilling, Wirch, Mason and Richards.
Ayes: 12 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Nygren, Strachota, Kooyenga, Knudson, LeMahieu and Klenke.
Noes: 4 - Senators Shilling, Wirch, Mason and Richards.
Assembly Bill 668
Relating to: providing grants to counties that offer substance abuse treatment and diversion from incarceration and making an appropriation.
Ayes: 15 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Shilling, Wirch, Nygren, Strachota, Knudson, LeMahieu, Klenke, Mason and Richards.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Bill 701
Relating to: opioid treatment programs and making an appropriation.
Ayes: 15 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Shilling, Wirch, Nygren, Strachota, Knudson, LeMahieu, Klenke, Mason and Richards.
Noes: 0.
Ayes: 15 - Senators Darling, Olsen, Harsdorf, Leibham, Lazich, Grothman, Shilling, Wirch, Nygren, Strachota, Knudson, LeMahieu, Klenke, Mason and Richards.
Noes: 0.
JOHN NYGREN
Assembly Co-Chairperson
Joint Committee on Finance
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The committee on State Affairs and Government Operations reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 63
Relating to: the composition of the State Capitol and Executive Residence Board.
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Weininger, Swearingen, Craig, Kleefisch, Knodl, Neylon, Kooyenga, Hutton, Nass, Zamarripa, Ringhand, Kahl and Hulsey.
Noes: 0.
CHAD WEININGER
Chairperson
Committee on State Affairs and Government Operations
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Action on the Senate Message
Senate Bill 196
Relating to: restricting the use of drones and providing a penalty.
By Senators Petrowski, Erpenbach, Risser, Grothman, Hansen, Schultz and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives August, Kessler, Craig, C. Taylor, Ballweg, Berceau, Born, Czaja, Hebl, Kestell, Loudenbeck, Murphy, Murtha, Ohnstad, A. Ott, Pope, Sanfelippo, Shankland, Spiros, Thiesfeldt, Tittl and Tranel.
Senate Bill 462
Relating to: underage persons under the influence of alcohol beverages on school premises and providing a penalty.
By Senators Kedzie and Olsen; cosponsored by Representatives Nass, A. Ott, Wright and Bies.
Senate Bill 499
Relating to: creating a property tax exemption for a nonprofit youth baseball association.
By Senator Lazich; cosponsored by Representatives Kuglitsch, Sinicki, Kaufert, Nass, Thiesfeldt, Barnes, Goyke, Johnson, Kahl, Milroy, Pasch, Riemer, Smith, Vruwink, Wachs, Zamarripa and Zepnick.
Senate Bill 504
Relating to: waiver of a parent's right to counsel in a contested adoption or an involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding for failure to personally appear as ordered by the juvenile court.
By Senator Lazich; cosponsored by Representatives Strachota, Kooyenga, Tauchen and Thiesfeldt.
Senate Bill 512
Relating to: deposits on the sale of certain lead acid batteries.
By Senators Cowles, C. Larson, Petrowski, Schultz, Miller and Vinehout; cosponsored by Representatives Spiros, A. Ott, Steineke, Krug, Bies, Kolste, T. Larson, Sargent, C. Taylor, Danou and Ohnstad.
Senate Bill 518
Relating to: a duty of podiatrists, chiropractors, dentists, and optometrists to inform patients of treatment options and granting rule-making authority.